Sara Qureshi

Sara Qureshi

Account Manager, Global Custody Operations

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  • Timeline

  • About me

    Manager, Change Management | Empowering People & Realizing Value

  • Education

    • SEB

      2019 - 2019
      Lead with impact Leadership program

      Lead with Impact program aimed at giving managers the fundamentals and training to feel confident in their leadership role and the complex business environment where SEB operates. The course gave insights on how to manage, lead, coach, facilitate, feedback and inspire individuals, teams or project groups in a way that really makes a difference as well as how to empower people to achieve high performance.

    • Move Management

      2018 - 2018
      Leadership in Action - The Coaching Leader

      Aim of the course was to learn how to coach and give feedback as a manager. Focus was on coaching foundations, tools, motivational drives and needs.

    • Franklin Covey

      2017 - 2017
      Project Management Essentials

      The Project Management Essentials course provided the mindset, skillset, andtoolset in order to consistently deliver successful projects to completion. Main content was that consistent project success depends on processes and people.

    • SEB

      2014 - 2014
      Leadarship in Action - Communication

      Aim of the Communication course was to learn to communicate clearly and confidently and to use those communication skills for better relationships and improved results.

    • Semcon

      2014 - 2014
      Project Management

      Project Management course with focus on structures, processes, roles and responsibilities in order to coordinate, communicate and manage project activities with the aim of ensuring that the expected benefits and effects are achieved.

    • Enneagram Center

      2013 - 2013
      Leadership & Communication

      Leadership course with focus on communication, to lead & coach yourself and others.

    • Mindset

      2012 - 2012
      Workshop & Meeting Facilitation

      Benefits & Learning Outcomes•Learn how to quickly establish an effective learning environment and the tools to quickly establish credibility, respect and rapport•Learn proven facilitation techniques: Enhanced listening, enhanced questioning, conveying understanding and unconditional acceptance•Calculated intervention: Know when to pause, when to nudge, when to challenge, when to lead and when to push•Effectively turn around tough, difficult and challenging participants -… Show more Benefits & Learning Outcomes•Learn how to quickly establish an effective learning environment and the tools to quickly establish credibility, respect and rapport•Learn proven facilitation techniques: Enhanced listening, enhanced questioning, conveying understanding and unconditional acceptance•Calculated intervention: Know when to pause, when to nudge, when to challenge, when to lead and when to push•Effectively turn around tough, difficult and challenging participants - winning them over. Use tools for achieving agreement and delivering an effective wrap up that motivates and compels action•Understand how to present to and use different personality types to improve impact, rapport and effectiveness•Learn how to be natural and your ‘best self’ in front of a group, able to effectively maintain a positive Mindset, enhanced resilience to quickly recover from challenging interactions and improved impact, presence, poise, effectiveness and the ability to ‘think on one’s feet’ Show less

    • Stockholms universitet

      2003 - 2006
      Bachelor of Science (BSc) Business and Economics
    • Handelshögskolan i Stockholm

      2019 - 2019
      Service Design Foundation Service Design

      Basics of Service design, how to use it in everyday work and participate in RPDs and Innovation labs.

    • Stockholms universitet

      2013 - 2014
      Master of Science (MSc) Business and Economics

      Focus area: Change Management and Organizational Change.

    • Handelshögskolan i Stockholm

      2019 - 2019
      Design Driven Ideation Program Service Design

      SEB program in collaboration with Stockholm School of Economics. The aim of the program was to develop skills and acquire knowledge of what Service Design is and how it can be used to pursue new and exciting opportunities with the end user in focus.

  • Experience

    • SEB

      Jan 2004 - Jan 2006
      Account Manager, Global Custody Operations

      Learned the essential about financial instruments and transactions. Worked with processing of Global Securities, FX and Payments with daily contact with fund commissioners, banks and clearing institutes. Subject Matter Expert in SEB Way change projects.

    • Nordea

      Jan 2006 - Jan 2007
      Securities Operations Officer, Trading & Treasury Operations

      Worked with Corporate Actions, processing of Swedish Securities and reconciliation for private clients.

    • SEB

      Jan 2007 - Jan 2020

      Internal Management Consultant within different divisions of SEB Group. Assignments stretched mainly geographically in the Nordic and Baltic region.Focus was to design, drive and implement organizational transformations by leading different streams of work in change initiatives, including all phases from analysis of business ideas, feasibility studies and implementations of systems and solutions within the SEB Group while ensuring sustainability.This included building relationships and working with Stakeholder Management, assess business readiness, anchoring and aligning the change through Change Management and communication. In addition, to motivate and engage employees in the change to meet the strategic goals whilst minimizing the risks.In addition I worked as a Change Management Communication Specialist with the focus to manage people in their change journey when driving change initiatives. Main deliverables consisted of establishing communication strategy, anchoring and aligning communication throughout the organization as well as supporting management and coworkers in the change. Show less

      • Manager Derivatives Services, Structured Trading Services

        Dec 2018 - Jan 2020
      • Management Consultant, SEB Way & Transformation Project Management

        Jan 2014 - Dec 2018
      • Process Area Specialist, Global Custody Operations

        Jan 2012 - Jan 2014
      • Senior Account Manager, Global Custody Operations

        Jan 2007 - Jan 2012
    • Avanade

      Jan 2020 - now

      Built up a Nordic Corporate Citizenship team, recruited and led the team. Responsible for aligning Nordic priorities as well as Global priorities for Avanade. Creating Human impact by building the team of country champions, setting the strategy, direction and raise awareness of the many possibilities to engage in Corporate Citizenship activities and events locally, in the Nordics as well as Globally. Focus also to find volunteering opportunities and to build relationships with NGO’s. With the purpose to work with People & Culture to elevate the employee experience, engage our people and do social good. Show less Lead the Sweden Corporate Citizenship team. Responsible for aligning priorities in Sweden with Global priorities for Avanade. Creating Human impact by engaging people, setting the strategy, direction and raise awareness of the many possibilities to engage in Corporate Citizenship activities and events in Sweden. Focus also to find volunteering opportunities and to build relationships with NGO’s. With the purpose to work with People & Culture to elevate the employee experience, engage our people and do social good. Show less

      • Consultant Manager Nordic Change Management Advisory & Experience Design

        Aug 2021 - now
      • Senior Management Consultant, Change Management Advisory & Experience Design

        Jan 2020 - Aug 2021
      • Nordic Corporate Citizenship Lead

        Jan 2020 - Mar 2021
      • Corporate Citizenship Lead Sweden

        Jan 2020 - Dec 2020
  • Licenses & Certifications

    • Certified Facilitator of Human-Centered Design

      LUMA Institute
      Apr 2023
    • Microsoft Certified: Power Platform Fundamentals

      Microsoft
      Sept 2021
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    • Certified practitioner of Human-Centered Design

      LUMA Institute
      Mar 2021
    • Microsoft 365 Certified: Fundamentals

      Microsoft
      Oct 2020
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    • Certified Microsoft Service Adoption Specialist

      Microsoft
      Mar 2020
    • Certified Delivery Manager

      Avanade
      Feb 2021
    • Microsoft Certified: Azure AI Fundamentals

      Microsoft
      Feb 2021
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    • Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals

      Microsoft
      Sept 2020
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    • Fundamentals of Innovation through Human-Centered Design

      LUMA Institute
      Mar 2021
    • Prosci® Certified Change Practitioner - Delivered by Nexum Group

      Prosci
      May 2020
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  • Honors & Awards

    • Awarded to Sara Qureshi
      Proffsmentor - collaboration between SEB and Mentor - 2012 Worked with mentoring activities for students in order to prepare and motivate them toward advanced studies and work-life.